When Is a Reservoir Not a Reservoir?

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To the Editor: Some 80% of parasitic infections of humans are zoonoses (1). These infections are caused bymultihost parasites for which the reservoir of infection depends on hosts other than Homo sapiens. But what is a reservoir of infection? Haydon et al. (2) proposed a new series of definitions in connection with multihost pathogens, in which a target host is the host of interest in a particular context. The...

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